Suspendeir-buckle



(No Model.)

F. H. RICHARDS. SUSPENDER BUCKLE. No. 434,886. Patented Aug. 19, 1890.

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UNITED STATESl PATENTu OFFICE.

FRANCIS H. RICHARDS, OF HARTFORD, ASSIGNOR TO THE TRAUT da HINE MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT.

sUsPl-:NDER-BUCKLE.

i SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Batent No. 434,886, dated August 19, 1890.

i Application tiled May l, 1890- Serial No. 350,232. (No model.)

.T 0 a/ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANCIS H. RICHARDS, a citizen 0f the United States, residing at Hartford, in `the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented certainv new and nsefulImprovements in Buckles for Suspenders, of lwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to buckles for suspenders, and to that class of said buckles hav; ing cast-offs, the object being to provide a buckle of that class simple in construction, cheaply manufactured, and readily operated.

In ,the drawings accompanying and forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a front or side view of a buckle embodying my Fig. 2 is an edge view of the same. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section through the middle of the buckle. Fig. 4 is a top view of the buckle, showing the hanger removed. Fig.,5.is a section in line c a, Fig. 3. Fig. 6 is a front view of one modification of the buckle. Figs. '7, 8, and 9 are similar views of other modifications in the construction of the buckle.

Similar characters designate like parts in all the figures.

The buckle-plate B is provided with the usual holding-teeth 7 for engaging the web 3 of the suspender, with means, as the lever L, for clamping the web 8 in engagement with said teeth to secure the plate B to said web, with means for carrying the usual straps, and with suitable pivots 4 for carrying the usual lever or clamp L.

The construction of the part B will be understood from the drawings by Figs'. 1 to 5, inclusive. At the lower end of the plate B there are oppositely-disposed catches or hooks 6 and 8 for engaging the detachable hanger S, which is suspended from a'hook 10 at the upper end of the plate B. The lower ends of the hanger S are formed with loops, as 12 and 14, Figsd, 2, and 3, for carrying the straps 11 and 13, or are provided with other means therefor-as, for instance, in Figs. 6 and 7. The hanger S being elastic, to operate the cast-off it is only necessary to close toward each other the loops 12 and 14 to unhook the sides 16 and 18 of the hanger from the hooks 6 and 8, respectively, when the hanger is free 8, so that on springing apart again the sides 16 and 18 come outside of these hooks. lThis will be readily understood from Figs., land 5, in the latter of which views the dotted lines 24 indicate the path of the hanger ends during the operating of them to take oif thel hanger.

The stop 2O may be of any suitable con-` struction and separable or integral with the plate B; but the best construction thereof I consider to be that illustratedin the drawings, wherein a portion of the plate B is shownV struck up or formed into an elevation curved in its cross-scctional outline, as in Fig. 8, and termin ating abruptly at the ends, as indicated in Figs. 1 and 5.

When the hanger is fully hooked in place, as in Fig. 1, the upper sides or bends 2 of the loops 12 and 14 come close underneath or contiguous to the hooks 6 and 8, respectively, and thus serve as a lock for the hanger, to prevent the same being taken off from the hook 10 without previously having been unhooked from said side catches 6 and 8. This feature gives additional reliability, since the downa ward strain of the straps is -not depended upon to keep the hanger in engagement with its said suspension-hook.

The modification shown in Fig. 6 is more fully described and is claimed in my application, Serial No. 350,233, filed May 1, 1890, to which reference may be had. In this modification the straps are to be attached to the thimble 30, which is carried on the inwardly-V bent lower ends 31 and 33 of the hanger S; also, the suspension-hook 10 is specifically of a diderent constructionA The modification shown in Fig. 7 is more fully described and is claimed in my applica tion, Serial No. 850,234, filed May 1, 1890, to

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which reference may be had. In this modification the straps are to be supported by the link 40, carried by the loop-shaped lower ends 41 and 43 of the hanger S; also, the hook l0 is of a construction specifically different from that of said hook in either of the preceding forms.

The modification shown in Fig. 8 is more fully described and is claimed in my application, Serial No. 350,235, filed May 1, 1890, to which reference may be had. In this modil cation the straps m'ay be secured to loops 12 and 14, formed on hanger S, as in Fig. l; ory the lower ends of said hanger may have, in l stead of said loops, the strap-supporting devices shown in Fig. 6 or in Fig. 7. The suspension-hook is here shown formed on the upper edge of the plate B, whereby thebuckle is conveniently made of less height than in the other forms thereof.

The modilication shown in Fig. 9 is more fuily described and is claimed in my applica- 1 tion, `Serial No. 350,237, filed May 1, 1390, to which reference may be had. In vthis moditication the hanger S does not have the loops 12 and 14 fully formed, as in Figs. 1 and "8, j but has the l.ends 51 and 53 thereof upward` and .outwardly bent to engage the lsockets :or catches 52 and 54, respectively, which sockets may be formed in the plate B by suitably cutting and swaging t-he same, as indicated bythe conventional line-shading of said parts. The suspension-hook may in this modifica-,l tion be such as shown in Figs. land 9, or may be either of those shown in Figs. 6, 7 and 8. Having thus described myv invention, I 1' clainf 1. In a buckle, the combination, with the buckle-plate having a suspension-,hook and; having the catches below said hook,of -an elastic hanger, substantially as described, carried f by the suspension-hook and adapted to cngage said catches, saidhanger having means for the attachment thereto of the straps.

2. In a buckle, the combination, with the buckle-plate having the suspension-hook and oppositely-disposed catches below said hook, of the elastic hanger carried on said hook and engaging said catches, said hanger having the bends 2 formed therein' contiguous to the lower side of said catches, whereby said bends serve to lock the hanger in place on the suspension-hook and against vertical movement.

-3. In a buckle, the combination, with the buckle-plate having the suspension-hook and oppositely-disposed catches below said hook, of the elastic hanger carried on said hook and engaging said catches, and the stop located. on the buckle-,plate between said catches for limiting the clos-ing of the hanger.

4. In a buckle, the combination, with the plate B, having the suspension-hook and the catches 6 and 8,.of the elastic hanger S, having strap-.supporting loops 12 and 14 constructed to lock under said catches.

5. In a buckle, the combination, with the buckle-plate having means for securing the' same to :the suspender-web and having a suspension-hook formed `ot a part 4of the middleV portion of the plate throw-n forward .of thel Witnesses- HENRY L. RECKARD, W. M. BYORKMAN.

FRANC-IS I-I. RICHARDS.

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